Between agents and mean fields

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7124 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-126

  Van Dyke Parunak, H ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based models; mean field models; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HORMONES; MEAN FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION PLATFORM; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; DESIGN OPTION; INSECT PHEROMONE; MEAN FIELD MODELS; PHEROMONE MODELS; PHEROMONES; PROPAGATION FACTOR;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858203965     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28400-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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